Five First Steps to Facebook Fame

by Julia D. Stege, MFA
@magicalmarketer

Attracting perfect customers and building buzz about your biz are fun and fulfilling activities you can do for free on Facebook, the most popular social network in the world. Boasting over 300 million users who linger a whopping 20 minutes per day, Facebook is an important business asset to any smart entrepreneur. Consider Facebook like your online Chamber of Commerce... you can meet people, socialize, organize, contribute, communicate, congregate, and promote yourself and your favorite causes to potentially millions of people across the world. Here are some steps you will want to take now to get started using Facebook.

STEP 1: Set up a good profile. Make sure to upload a recent photo of you, and include some details on what your personal interests are. On Facebook people want to get to know you as a person so give them what they're looking for. Also make sure to include all of your educational information and past employers so that folks you knew at those places can find you. Connecting with old school chums and work buddies is extremely enriching and can often lead to good referrals too!

STEP 2: Find Friends. There are a variety of ways you can find friends who are already on Facebook. First, have Facebook search your email for your peeps and request to connect with all who come up. You can do searches in Facebook by school and graduating year, and by employer to connect with folks you've met along the way. You can also connect with folks you don't yet know, but who share common interests with you, or who live in your region. Make sure to friend at least a few people every day and soon you will have hundreds of qualified connections who are interested to learn more about you!

STEP 3: Join Groups. Groups are where people congregate around an idea, an interest, a hobby, or a concern. Groups attract people of like mind and heart and offer ways for them to interact and communicate with each other. You can join groups and then look for ways to contribute to the members. See if you can answer questions or provide useful resources to the group members. Become known in your group and invite other group members to friend you. You can expand your network and your reputation this way.

STEP 4: Share Your Photos. Photos are the #1 activity on Facebook and folks spend a lot of time doing that. Make sure you have something to look at from various phases of your life, from childhood through school years and key events in your life. Make sure to have some recent photos so folks can see what you're up to now. If you are an artist, share pictures of your artwork too. Pictures are a great way to share what is important to you and help people to get to know you better.

STEP 5: Contribute Compelling Content on Your Wall. Whether you are sharing inspiring quotes, a song that moved you, educational videos, or your latest blog post, make sure whatever you put on your "Wall" is a reflection of what is truly important to you. Your postings will naturally be compelling to your friends when you are authentic. Interesting content will uplift and entertain your followers, and if they like it, they'll share it with others. Post your offerings occasionally but not all the time. Make sure to mix marketing with personal and inspirational contributions.

These are just some simple first steps to creating a following and building buzz about you and your offerings on Facebook. Read more tips on using Law of Attraction with Social Networks and Marketing on this Magical Marketing Blog.

WANT TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR EZINE OR WEB SITE? You can, as long as you include this complete blurb with it: Magical Marketer Julia D. Stege, MFA helps people attract their perfect customers with a unique combination of Law of Attraction, wildly attractive logos and websites, and smart Internet marketing techniques. If you're ready to start attracting your perfect customers now, get Julia's free Magical Marketing Toolkit at http://www.magicalmarketingtoolkit.com

Vibrational Marketing

A Whole New Paradigm for Attracting Customers
by Julia D. Stege, MFA
@magicalmarketer

"The marketing campaign that you are launching is not to attract the millions to your product, because they have already been attracted by your asking. The marketing is to attract YOU there." Abraham-Hicks

How do you feel right now?

Not many marketers will ask you this question because they don't think how you feel is at all important. Most people approach marketing from a stance of "what's wrong." They look at what is missing (not enough clients or sales for instance) and market from that perspective.

Law of Attracting is like gravity in the sense that it's always responding to vibration, and how you feel will indicate whether you are moving toward or away from what you desire, including your perfect customers.

So if you start your marketing campaign from "what's missing" and you feel pretty bad as you do it, your marketing campaign will not be successful. It is not successful because you are standing apart from the vibration of success which is where your perfect customers are waiting for you.

On the other hand, if you approach your marketing from the perspective of how much you love your product or service and how it will enhance the lives of people, and you feel good as you create blog posts, advertisements, tweets, and web copy, your campaign will successfully bring you into alignment with the perfect customers who are seeking you. Then like magic you will start receiving calls, emails, inquiries and comments from your peeps.

Your perfect customers can't notice you when you are not in alignment with your success. Not until you feel great and exude the love you feel for your offerings will they be drawn to you and notice you. When you are in that perfect vibration, they are attracted to you like a magnet!

You have been asking for a while to attract people to your offerings. The question is are you cooperating with what is already lined up for you, or not? As you take the time to uplift your mood and live within the happy dream of your ultimate success, and share your passion from there, you become a perfect match for your perfect peeps.

If you need some help raising your vibration, check out this post.

WANT TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR EZINE OR WEB SITE? You can, as long as you include this complete blurb with it: Magical Marketer Julia D. Stege, MFA helps people attract their perfect customers with a unique combination of Law of Attraction, wildly attractive logos and websites, and smart Internet marketing techniques. If you're ready to start attracting your perfect customers now, get Julia's free Magical Marketing Toolkit at http://www.magicalmarketingtoolkit.com

Confidence: Why it's Your Greatest Business Asset

by Julia D. Stege, MFA

Have you noticed a lot of people are in fear these days? They are falling prey to the negativity in the media and worrying about the state of the economy. They have heard about folks losing their jobs or have friends in some tight spaces. Even if they are still doing fine and earning what they always have, the current climate makes them feel insecure about the future.

Have you fallen prey to the fear factor? I'm asking because if you have, you are doing a disservice to your customers (and yourself). What they really need right now (and what you need too) is your confidence!

What is confidence? According to the web dictionary, confidence is "assurance: freedom from doubt, belief in yourself and your abilities, a feeling of trust, a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable." Can you begin to see how this is the quality your perfect customers are seeking in you?

No matter what your service or product, your customers want to know that you are confident it will help them with their problem or need. Imagine if you are exuding some element of fear yourself, will the customer buy? Probably not.

I remember one time when it dawned on me that my confidence would make the difference between signing a new client or not. I was in a meeting with a potential client at a time when I really needed the money. I had a choice of being needy or confident. I chose confident and so I cleared my mind of all fear and doubt and acted like I was the best person for the job in how I presented myself, how I spoke, and what I said. They hired me on the spot for a project that earned me upwards of $50,000.

Your confidence is a magnet that draws others to you. Your influence actually spreads hope and uplifts others. So build your confidence muscle and watch your business grow.

If you are having challenges being confident, WikiHow has some great tips at http://www.wikihow.com/Build-Self-Confidence. Use these tips frequently to build your confidence muscle.

WANT TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR EZINE OR WEB SITE? You can, as long as you include this complete blurb with it: Magical Marketer Julia D. Stege, MFA helps people attract their perfect customers with a unique combination of Law of Attraction, Wildly Attractive WebsitesTM, Branding from the HeartTM, and smart Social Networking strategies. If you're ready to start attracting your perfect customers now, get Julia's free Magical Marketing Toolkit at http://www.magicalmarketingtoolkit.com

Still Tooling Around Online? We're Waiting for Your Message!

Just look at you! You're out there serving people with your heart-felt gifts. You have spent your life discovering ways to help yourself and others to live a better life, to transcend, to thrive, to experience joy. You warm my heart with your passion for contribution.

Now if only your perfect customers could find you, the phone would be ringing off the hook, and your calendar would be filled.

Close your eyes and imagine this: the phone rings and someone on the other end of the line says, "I found you online and I really love what you do. Your approach is so unique, such a match for me. I already feel like you 'get' me, and I'd like to explore your services." Breathe it in. It could happen to you.

I know because this happens to me a lot, sometimes several times in a day.

It happens because while you have been learning new ways to serve people with your magical offerings, I've been studying those big marketing gurus, the type that send really loud videos every day about how much money they're making online. I study them so that I can glean ways to translate their important information into language that conscious entrepreneurs like you and I can understand and relate to.

I mean, you wouldn't be able to use their information right out of the box because it's so hypey and though it's solid information that's vital for any business owner to know, it doesn't take into consideration the importance and the feeling of a heartfelt message. Frankly, these folks don't think about the vibration of their marketing, and if you used their techniques, your perfect customers would run to the hills to go meditate just to rebalance themselves.

Are you ready to stop just tooling around online?

You need a more authentic, transparent, and sensitive approach to marketing, and you can't easily imagine how you could do this online. You know you have a very important gift, but you're the best kept secret in your industry because you're mostly tooling around online and not really getting the message out.

What if instead of just tooling around and experimenting here and there, you could develop a plan that allows you to share what's most important to you in a way that builds buzz about your offerings and magnetizes people to you? What if you could expand your network by thousands of people who are a perfect match for you, who are seeking something that you have?

I want to help!

This is what my offerings are really all about. With my blogs, my social networking friendships, my attraction marketing webinars, and my custom design services, I help conscious entrepreneurs to define their message from their true life purpose and develop that into a consistent, alluring and beautiful brand. I then help them take that message and define it online in a way that offers the right vibration and inspires perfect customers to take actions (like calling you for a free consult.) The icing on the cake is the way I teach folks how to network authentically using social networks that get you to page one of Google and attract perfect customers.

Because I love you, my peeps and followers, I have some special offerings that will help you to reach those people who are seeking you now, and reach them with the right message that will transform their lives. First, I have a standing offer for a complimentary exploratory conversation to discuss your purpose and how you want to get the message out. To get that you must call me at (707) 823-3316 during biz hours and leave some good times to talk. Then I have some bonus offerings that were my "one day only" specials for folks who signed up for my free teleclass series , but I'm extending them to you because I really care about your message getting out to the world.

http://www.graphicgirlz.com/special.html

Here you'll find my best price on my 10 week webinar bundled with bonus lessons on how to use Law of Attraction in your marketing plus discounted private sessions with me. You can use the private sessions to define your heart-centered brand message, perfect your attraction plan, and get over your stumbling blocks to success online. I do have a limited number of these packages available, so please act quickly before I take the page down.

Wanna earn some cash?

I'd like to extend to you an offer to earn some money while helping your peers and buddies to also attract their perfect customers online. I'm setting up a new affiliate program that automates this process, but while I'm getting that ready, I would like to offer you a 10% cash bonus or a 15% service bonus for referring them to my specials, but you have to tell me the names of the folks you're sending my way, and I'll happily speak with them about how I can serve them.

Are you ready to powerfully share your mission and attract your perfect customers online? You can visit http://www.graphicgirlz.com/special.html and place your order online now, or you can call me at (707) 823-3316 and ask me how I can help you to get started.

The world is waiting for you!

Magnetic Marketing Tips for Web-Shy Entrepreneurs

by Julia D. Stege, MFA
@magicalmarketer

I talk to a lot of coaches, healers, and conscious entrepreneurs who tell me they don't like the web. Don't get me wrong, these are regular upstanding business people who are quite hip in a lot of ways. They just want to limit their time in front of the machine. They're concerned about their vibration and the electronic gadgetry makes them a bit uptight.

I understand. Really, I like to get outside and futz around with my garden and catch a few rays during the day. It's part of the benefits of being self employed. But I don't underestimate the power of the Internet to offer me this freedom to futz. I rely heavily on the Internet to attract my customers, and knowing what tools to use and when and how are vital keys to my business success.

Therefore, though I feel your pain and I want to pick the flowers too, I have to tell you that Internet marketing is no longer just an option. It is vital to your success. The key becomes using the Internet in ways that are fun and fulfilling to you and your life mission.

That said, there are some things you can do before you get online that will help you become a magical magnet for your perfect customers:

1) Clarify what you want. You will save a lot of time and frustration if you know who your perfect customers are. Creating an attraction plan is a perfect way to streamline your marketing and open the gateways to becoming a magnet for what you want. Get the Magical Marketing Toolkit for instructions on how to create your Attraction Plan.

2) "What you seek is seeking you." Rumi ~ Take a deep breath and drink this in: your perfect customers are seeking you right now. You are the one. When they find you they will thank their lucky stars. You don't have to target anyone, and you will not have to convince anyone of anything. Your perfect customers are already your biggest fans. When you fully understand this you will be more relaxed and a lot more attractive!

3) What you care about is what they care about. All you need to do is write about your passion and purpose. When you tap into your true essence and share that with the world there is nothing more compelling, especially to your perfect customers. You are simpatico. You share a lot in common because you are on the same path in life. You don't need to strategize too much, just notice what you are compelled to share about and write it down. Consider the challenges you can help people overcome. That's your true passion. Write about that!

4) Register for my free teleclass series. I've spent a lot of time learning what tools to use to get to page one of Google, expand my list, and create buzz about my business online. I'll be sharing my secrets with you so you can save time online and become empowered to share your mission far and wide. See http://www.graphicgirlz.com/apco.html for more info or just email info@magicalmarketingonline.com to receive the call in information. If you cannot make the live class, a podcast of the event will be made available to those who register.

Taking these steps will help you hone your intention and improve your effectiveness online. Once your inbox fills with business inquiries from perfect customers, I bet you'll start considering the computer as more of a friend.

WANT TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR EZINE OR WEB SITE? You can, as long as you include this complete blurb with it: Magical Marketer Julia D. Stege, MFA helps people attract their perfect customers with a unique combination of Law of Attraction, Wildly Attractive WebsitesTM, Branding from the HeartTM, and smart Social Networking strategies. If you're ready to start attracting your perfect customers now, get Julia's free Magical Marketing Toolkit at http://www.magicalmarketingtoolkit.com

Still Afraid of Social Networks? Top 4 Objections and How to Disappear Them

by Julia D. Stege, MFA
@magicalmarketer

I have been giving a lot of talks and classes lately on Social Networking and I've been getting some feedback from folks that they're still afraid of the likes of Twitter and Facebook. There are so many reasons people have for avoiding these free online marketing tools. The ones I hear the most are:

1. I will lose my privacy.
2. I don't have the time to do one more thing.
3. People say meaningless things like what they're eating. Why do I care?
4. I don't understand how to use Social Networks to attract perfect customers.

I promise you, I feel your pain. I really do. There was once a time when I said all of these things about sites I now use daily to grow my list, create buzz about my offerings, and expand my reputation online. But instead of giving up, I investigated, spent time, learned, and used the social networks to great advantage. And even though everyone is talking about Twitter and Facebook now, most Internet marketers weren't even on these sites a few months ago. So relax! Everyone is new at this. And I'll give you some tips to disappear those objections you may still have to Facebooking and Tweeting your way to Internet marketing success.

Objection 1: I'll lose my privacy.
Frankly, my gut reaction to this objection is, "privacy is dead." Anyone who markets online is exposing themselves to the world in bigger ways than ever was possible before. There are great advantages to being this exposed, including improved reputation, expanded influence, and wider selection of potential customers. My second reaction is, "what do you have to hide?" I always promote an authentic approach to marketing because your most perfect customers are attracted to your true self. Social Networks offer your contacts an opportunity to get to know the real you, and if they don't like you, they're not your perfect customers! That said, it's a good idea to keep your personal information private, such as your personal email, home phone, and other info, if you don't want folks contacting you night and day. Create business contact avenues that you can turn off when the business day ends.

Objection 2: I don't have the time to do one more thing
Let me offer a scenario. Everyone in business needs to network to spread the word about their offerings and meet new contacts. How much time does it take to go to one networking meeting? Consider you have to get dressed up which takes about an hour, and then you must get to the event, say another half hour. The event is 2-3 hours, and then you have to drive home. That's a total of 4 - 5 hours! If you were to spend that time networking online you have the potential to reach a much larger audience, and your web properties will stay up for months or even years attracting your customers 24/7.

Objection 3: People say meaningless things like what they're eating. Why do I care?
This is a common complaint. You go to your network and feel inundated by nonsense. Here's a tip: If you don't like what people are writing about on your networks, you're not connecting to the right people. To attract the right people, do a keyword search using words that reflect your purpose and interests and connect with them! Search for groups of like minded people and friend them. After a while you'll find your networks filled with helpful tidbits and inspirations that uplift and educate you. Spend some time responding to those folks who have said something interesting and encourage them. Make sure you offer helpful and interesting information too, so it's not just a one way relationship!

Objection 4: I don't understand how to use Social Networks to attract my perfect customers.
You're not alone! Most people know how to have fun, connect, and chat with folks online once they get the hang of it, but attracting customers? That's a different story. Consider this: Dale Carnegie who wrote How to Win Friends and Influence People taught us that people will buy from us when they know us, like us and trust us. Making friends online is a crucial step in this process. The second step is in creatively letting them know about what you're offering for sale, and be authentic.

I realize it's not that simple for some folks who need a helping hand. That's why I teach a 10 week program for conscious entrepreneurs who need guidance through the process of getting on the right social networks, using the right words to attract folks, and using the best tools to create new business relationships. I also offer free teleclasses once per month to give you some valuable tips on how to get started on the Social Networks. Visit http://www.graphicgirlz.com/apco.html to learn more and register for my upcoming classes. It's my pleasure to empower you to attract your perfect customers online.

WANT TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR EZINE OR WEB SITE? You can, as long as you include this complete blurb with it: Magical Marketer Julia D. Stege, MFA helps people attract their perfect customers with a unique combination of Law of Attraction, Wildly Attractive WebsitesTM, Branding from the HeartTM, and smart Social Networking strategies. If you're ready to start attracting your perfect customers now, get Julia's free Magical Marketing Toolkit at http://www.magicalmarketingtoolkit.com

Considering Freedom

by Julia D. Stege, MFA

Today I am thinking about Freedom; Not just because it’s Independence Day, the day Americans on all sides of the political spectrum celebrate Revolution. And not just because Freedom forms the ideological foundation for our country that is celebrating it’s birthday today. It’s because I’m always thinking about Freedom. Freedom is part of what makes me tick.

Sing a ‘Song of Freedom’ and I’m likely to tear with gratitude. This is what I’ve based my life upon. All the decisions I ever made have had this at the core: Freedom. I guess that makes me a quintessential American (in addition to fact that I’m a descendant of two different American Revolutionaries, Roger Sherman and Jesse Leavenworth of Connecticut.)

“Give Me Liberty of Give Me Death,” I would have said, but thank goodness I haven’t have to take it to that extreme. Today I am deeply grateful for those who have come before me and blazed a trail for my Freedom. My life has always been a free expression of creativity, love and magic. I am thankful that I have the freedom to learn about, experience, and teach others the power of deliberate creation; How we are creating our lives through our thoughts, a teaching that in another time or another place would be condemned as blasphemy.

Can I interest you in considering your Freedom today? Perhaps it’s something you’ve been taking for granted, or perhaps you have been fearing the political tide would take our Freedom away. Either way, now is a great time to appreciate the Freedom we have, and to indulge in visions of Freedom for All.

WANT TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR EZINE OR WEB SITE? You can, as long as you include this complete blurb with it: Magical Marketer Julia D. Stege, MFA helps people attract their perfect customers with a unique combination of Law of Attraction, Wildly Attractive WebsitesTM, Branding from the HeartTM, and smart Social Networking strategies. If you're ready to start attracting your perfect customers now, get Julia's free Magical Marketing Toolkit at http://www.magicalmarketingtoolkit.com